What we reach for may be different, but what makes us reach is the same.

Repetition is not failure. Ask the waves, ask the leaves, ask the wind.

A successful creative expression is one in which the person who has expressed it was transformed for having encountered it

What will you do today, knowing that you are one of the rarest forms of life to ever walk the Earth? How will you carry yourself? What will you do with your hands? Tomorrow you could die, but today you are precious and rare and awake. Grateful and awake, ask what you need to know now. Say what you feel now. Love what you love now.

Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.

Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.

Love and grief enable us to feel how we're all at heart the same. In love and grief, which is always very personal, the distinctions that separate us melt away.